Donkey Kong Country

November 17, 2000

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The North American commercial for the Game Boy Color port of the game used updated models of Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Klump, and Krusha as they appeared in the "Donkey Kong Country" animated TV series, which had just ended its run four months before the port's release.

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Commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MtIGYwOZX0
https://archive.org/details/HQDKCGBCCommercial

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Eight games developed by Rare for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance feature a recurring Easter egg: a crude drawing of a bovine eating a flower. Dubbed the "Rare Cow", it made its first known appearance in Conker's Pocket Tales in 1998, and last appeared in It's Mr. Pants in 2004.

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Video overview of all known appearances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hilpKP1xiXs

Screenshots of all known appearances:
https://www.raregamer.co.uk/games/rare-cows-list/

Official Nintendo Magazine article [source originally submitted by Zoltanish]:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141010194946/http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/44420/features/14-donkey-kong-facts-and-secrets/?page=3